Sleeping garment



Feb. 10, 1925.

F. W. THOMAS SLEEPING GARMENT Filed March 26, 1923 Fatented Feb. 1Q,1925.

:1: sta es OFFICE.

FRANK V. THOZIEAS, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO DR. BENTON SLEEPING GAR-MENT IJIILLS, F CENTERVILLE, Iv'ZIGEIGAN, A CQRPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

SLEEPING GARMENT. j

Application filed March 28, 1923. Serial No. 627,538.

T 0 all whom 2'25 may concern.

Be it lmown that I, FRANK W. THOMAS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Sleeping Garment, which invention is fully setforth in the following specification.

This invention relates to sleeping garments of the type used'moreespecially by children, and having closed foot portions,

' and particularly to improvements in the sleeping garment covered bythe Benton United States Letters Patent No. 599,995 dated March 1, 1898.

The object of the invention is to improve on the manner of making thefoot portions of said garment whereby said portions have a tailoredappearance, provide greater room and freedom for the feet and avoidbinding over the instep.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and apreferred embodiment thereof is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which,

Figure l is a rear view of a garment embodymg the invention. Fig. 2 is aplan of the sole member of a foot portion of a garment. Fig. 3 is a sideview of the sole member formed up substantially as it appears in use.Fig. d is the lower end portion of a leg of the garment with the material opened up and disconnected from the sole. F ig. 5 is an innerside view of the lower end portion of a garment leg with the soleremoved, and Figs. 6 and 7 are inner and outer side views, respectivelythereof, with the sole member secured in position thereto.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates the garment body having the legportions 2 terminating in feet 8.

Each leg 2 is formed of a single piece of material doubled transverselyupon itself and provided with a single lengthwise seam 4 at the innerside thereof, the leg being of tube form when opened up. The foot end ofthe leg terminates at its front side in a flap 5 forming the foot topand at its rear side in a flap 6 forming the heel, both being rounded attheir ends and the former being longer than the latter. The two flapsare separated at the outer side of the leg by a V-notch 7 with the heelside thereof preferably formed in a slight ogee curve and with the otherside thereof substantially straight as shown in Fig. 4.

The material forming each leg 2 is formed at the opposite side edges ofits foot end with narrow projections 8 substantially of triangular formextending from a side of the respective foot to flaps 5 and 6 a shortdistance along said edges, as best shown in Fig. at. When the edges ofthe material are sewed together to form the seam 4: which extends alongthe outer edges of the projections 8 to the points 9 thereof, theprovision of said projections causes a fulling of the instep and ankleportions of the foot.

Each foot includes a sole portion 10 of elongated form with its frontand rear ends rounded and with its sides provided with long taperedextensions 11 extending lengthwise thereof and forming points 12adjacent to the heel end of the sole as shown in Fig. 2. The solemembers are sewed along their edges to the edges of the leg flaps 5 and6 with the side extensions 11 thereof fitting up into the notches 7 and13 provided at the outer and inner sides, respectively, of the legbetween the inner end portions of the flaps 5 and 6. The portionswithout the dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 4 indicate the portions added tothe respective parts of the garment as heretofore made.

It is evident that the leg material of the garment is formed at theouter and inner sides thereof with upwardly extending notches 7 and 13;that the instep and ankle portion of the foot is enlarged by reason ofthe provision of the extensions 8 on the edges of the leg material,which extensions, when sewed together, form a gore in the leg, and thatthe sole member 10 extends up around the sides of the foot with theprojections ll sewed to the respective edges of the flaps 5 and 6 andfitting up into the leg notches 7 and 13.

I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to any specificconstruction, arrangement or form of the parts, as it is capable ofembodiment in numerous forms without departing from the spirit of theclaim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is,

A garment of the class described having a leg portion formed of a singlepiece of materiel transversely doubled n I on itself with the edgessewed together along the inner side of the leg, said material havingflaps at n. it i its, outer end forming foot top and heel nortions, th epo's iteside "edges ofthe material being for; ed ad'jacen't to therespective flaps with narrow longitudinally extending taperedprojections causing a fulling of the ankle and instep portion of thefoot when theedges are sewed together to relieve strainhag eboilttheankle the flaps tapering away from each other at their inner and outerto form upwardly extending notches, and 2t sole member sewed to theflaps along the edges thereof and having side extensions which fit upinto said notches and are sewed to the wells thereotto maintain thetullness efi'ected by the tapered projections.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, to; thisspecification.

FRANK w. THOMAS.

